Posts in Category ‘Stories of unreproducibility’

As part of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, this report describes the attempt to replicate critical experiments from the paper “Intestinal Inflammation Targets Cancer-Inducing Activity of the Microbiota” (Arthur et al., 2012). In agreement with the original study, the authors did not observe any changes on …

The ECNP Preclinical Network has announced the winner of the Award for the best publication of negative results in preclinical neuroscience. The Award was presented by Dr. Patricia Kabitzke (Cohen Veterans Bioscience, the main sponsor of the Award) during the ECNP Congress in Barcelona on October …

Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 Being able to replicate scientific findings is crucial for scientific progress. The authors of this study published in Nature Human Behaviour tried to replicate 21 systematically selected experimental studies in the …

Two examples from Diabetes research of non-reproducible studies. A commentary on The Scientist published on August 10th, 2018. There will always be reasons why studies cannot be replicated and that can be to the smallest experimental details. This is ok and will always happen in research. …